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From wire reports • Wednesday July 16, 2014 8:11 AM

JOHANNESBURG — Murder defendant Oscar Pistorius was in an altercation at a nightclub over
the weekend, his family said yesterday.

Pistorius, who is free on bail during his trial, went with a cousin to a trendy Johannesburg
nightclub on Saturday and was accosted by a man who aggressively questioned him about the trial, a
family spokeswoman said.

The man gave a different version, saying the double-amputee runner was drunk, insulted the man’s
friends and poked him in the chest,
TheStar newspaper in South Africa reported. The man said he pushed Pistorius, who fell.

Pistorius fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a bathroom door on Feb. 14, 2013.
Defense attorneys say it was a tragic case of mistaken identity. Prosecutors say Pistorius is a
hothead who shot Steenkamp after the couple quarreled.

The trial is on a break. Closing arguments are Aug. 7-8.

Leo Pistorius, an uncle of the runner’s, said in a statement that it was unwise for his nephew
to go to the club, and his “escalating sense of loneliness and alienation” had contributed to “some
of his self-harming behavior.”